From: ryot AT bigfoot DOT com (George Ryot) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: What's a good stand-alone editor? Message-ID: <380e292a.10506749@news.clara.net> References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 X-No-Archive: yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 26 Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 21:01:44 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.8.92.60 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT clara DOT net X-Trace: nnrp4.clara.net 940453304 195.8.92.60 (Wed, 20 Oct 1999 22:01:44 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 22:01:44 BST To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Shawn Hargreaves wrote: > >> Which editor should I use? > > > > Emacs, of course ;-). > > The thing about editors is that everybody has a different idea about > exactly what they should do, and what feels nicest to use. But > fortunately for us poor coders, text editors are, along with > hydrogen and stupidity, one of the most commonly occuring substances > in the universe, so there are an almost infinite number of them > which can be downloaded from the net :-) The only real way to decide > is to try a few and see what feels right for you. Absolutely! And here's a couple more to try out ;-) UltraEdit is an excellent editor that I've been using for over a year and I'd recommend it to anyone doing programming. Syntax highlighting (of course), very comprehensive search & replace, FTP file open & save, and as a bonus it does hex editing of binary files as well! EditPlus seems pretty good too, but I haven't been using it that long. The URLs are http://www.ultraedit.com and http://www.editplus.com -- george